[OpenSPIM] Problems with OpenSPIM system

[Ke Li]

Hi Mark and Johannes,

Thanks so much for finding the fundamental cause of this wired phenomenon.
Hope to get your reply later.

Best,

Ke

Ke Li
Research Assistant
Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Phone: 410-934-9802
Email: kli26 at jhu.edu


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Mark Tsuchida <marktsuchida at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ke and Johannes,
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Mark Tsuchida <marktsuchida at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:27:54PM -0400, Ke Li wrote:
> >> 1. I still can't add the Z stage when I create the hardware
> configuration.
> >> I tried both 64-bit and 32-bit Windows system, neither can work. Since
> the
> >> problem report doesn't give much info, I'm not sure whether there are
> other
> >> ways to solve this problem? And what possible reasons can cause the
> >> problem?
> >
> > Are you sure you have the correct serial number for the Z stage (as
> > Johannes suggested)? In the problem report you sent us, it looked like
> > you had not set the serial number when adding the Z stage in the
> > Hardware Configuration Wizard. This causes the device adapter to use the
> > serial number "-1", which always results in an error.
> >
> > Do you see a field to enter the serial number for the Z stage? If you
> cannot
> > get it to work even when entering the correct serial number, could you
> try
> > sending another Problem Report?
>
> Sorry, I hadn't seen your reply to Johannes that answered that question of
> mine.
>
> I can reproduce the problem: with no Picard hardware connected to the
> computer, no configuration dialog for the pre-initialization settings
> (including the serial number) is displayed in the hardware
> configuration wizard. This is the case for the Twister and Z stage,
> but not the XY stage (at least on my computer).
>
> Johannes, I also found the cause: OnSerialGeneric() is calling the
> Initialize() function, which fails. This happens before the Hardware
> Wizard calls Initialize (actually, when the wizard is trying to get
> the initial values of the pre-init properties), so the wizard has no
> chance to display the configuration dialog.
>
> Simply taking out the calls to Initialize (PicardStage.cpp lines
> 243-245, 258) seems to fix this, but I'm not sure if that is all that
> needs to be done (since I don't have a Picard stage and cannot figure
> out what the intent of calling Initialize() at this point was).
> Johannes, can you take a look at this?
>
> Best,
> Mark
>
> --
> Mark Tsuchida
> Micro-Manager Team (UCSF Vale Lab)
>
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